Senate Roll Call 519, 103rd Congress · May 19, 1994
A bill to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to allow grants to increase police presence, to expand and improve cooperative efforts between law enforcement agencies and members of the community to address crime and disorder problems, and otherwise to enhance public safety. — (SENATE AGREED TO GRAMM MOTION TO INSTRUCT THE CONFEREES TO INSIST ON SUBTITLE E OF TITLE XIII OF THE SENATE AMENDMENT, ESTABLISHING A VIOLENT CRIME REDUCTION TRUST FUND, AND SECTION 2404 OF THE SENATE AMENDMENT, SECTION 2407 OF THE SENATE AMENDMENT, AND THE MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCES IN SECTION 2405, ALL RELATING TO MANDATORY MINIMUM PRISON SENTENCES.)
Question before the chamber: On the Motion
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.
How this vote is scored
Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.
- Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Punitive”
model(0.90): Instructing conferees to insist on mandatory minimum prison sentences pushes toward a punitive criminal justice policy.
Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement
Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.75) Instructing conferees on mandatory minimums and trust funds is primarily a policy motion without clear net fiscal impact.
Tagged by: keyword:omnibus
Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (66)
- Max Baucus
- Robert F. Bennett
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Barbara Boxer
- John B. Breaux
- George Hanks Brown
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- J. Robert Kerrey
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Harris Wofford
Nay (32)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- John Hubbard Chafee
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Russell D. Feingold
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- John F. Kerry
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Harlan Mathews
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Paul Martin Simon
- Arlen Specter
- Paul David Wellstone
Not voting or present (2)
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Richard C. ShelbyDid not vote
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